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Offline Julian

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Simple Wiki Mark up
« on: November 29, 2010, 05:22:41 PM »
Page giving text formatting: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples

General help page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing

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Credit to Tony for working out how to do this, but if you put   {{WIP}}    right at the top of the page, it adds a warning so others will know the page is still being worked on.  When the page is finished, simply delete it.

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Italic = ''text''
Bold = '''text'''
Italic and bold = '''''text'''''
Line break = <br/>
Your name = ~~~
Your name + time and date = ~~~~
List = * and ** for second level list etc
Numbered list = # and ## for second level list etc
Horizontal line = ----
Indent = :
Double indent = ::
Treble indent = :::
Centered text = <div style="text-align:center;">Text here</div>
Small text = <small>Text here</small>
Large text = <big>Text here</big>
Greek symbols = &alpha   &beta   etc.


Not wiki but they seem to work

Degrees = Alt+0176 = °
Microns = Alt+0181 = µ
squared = Alt+0178 = ²
Cubed = Alt+0179 = ³
Quater = Alt+0188 = ¼
Half = Alt+0189 = ½
Three quarters = Alt+0190 = ¾
Times = Alt+0215 = ×
Divide = Alt+0247 = ÷
Plus or minus = Alt+241 = ±
Trade mark = Alt+0153 = ™
Copyright = Alt+0169 = ©
Registered name = Alt+0174 = ®


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Links to pages where text is not the page title

[[page title|text that will form the link]]

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Automatically create a contents box regardless of subheadings on the page, or force position.

__TOC__


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To include a file in a page, use a link in one of the following forms:


[[File:File.jpg]] to use the full version of the file
[[File:File.png|200px|thumb|left|alt text]] to use a 200 pixel wide rendition in a box in the left margin with 'alt text' as description
[[Media:File.ogg]] for directly linking to the file without displaying the file

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Picture Gallery


<gallery caption="title" widths="300px" heights="300px" perrow="2" align="left">
File:file name 1.jpg|Text under pic here.
File:file name 1.jpg|Text under pic here.
</gallery>


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Quote box (border and fil)

<blockquote style="background-color: lightgrey; border: solid thin grey;">
Quoted text here.
</blockquote>

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Categories

you just add:

[[Category:Biodiesel]]  
at the end of a page

(actually, you can make any old category name up, the wiki just groups together pages that use the same category name - no need to "create" a category as such)
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Embedding you tube videos:
See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmbedVideo


add this code to the page and insert the you tube video code where the crosses are in this example, you can change where it appears on the page by changing the part that says right, to left or center.

{{#ev:youtube|XXXXXXXXXXX|240|right|Starting the demething stage of WBD}}
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« Last Edit: December 18, 2010, 09:59:22 AM by Julian »
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